National Institutes of Health consensus and state-of-the science statements are prepared by independent panels of health professionals and public representatives on the basis of 1) the results of a… (More)

This paper describes a developmental sequence which many physicians seem to experience as they mature in their competence in family-centered medical care. The flow of the developmental levels is from… (More)

Background and objective Few reports in the medical literature examine physician agreement on a standard assessment for somatisation in primary care patients. We describe somatising patients who were… (More)

As a part of an on-going effort to assess the prevalence of alcoholism among hospitalized patients, a structured technique was devised to document the prevalence of alcoholism in a large teaching… (More)

The "art of medicine" is struggling for survival in medical education, practice, and research. The authors embrace the biopsychosocial model as an ideal new paradigm for medicine and propose that the… (More)